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Archive for September 2017

Anyone Passing Through?

September 8, 2017
Did you wake up this morning, make coffee on your gimbal stove, and poke your head through the companionway, into your cockpit and onto Richardson Bay? Are you from Oregon, Washington, British Columbia or even Alaska, and making a pit stop in the beautiful waters of Sausalito, or other Bay Area haunts? More »

Smoke on the Water

While natural disasters elsewhere have garnered the headlines, the western United States has not slid into September unscathed. Wildfires too numerous to list, some massive and catastrophic in scope, dot the West Coast from border to border. More »

Hurricane Irma Makes Landfall

A satellite image of Hurricane Irma spinning violently in the Caribbean.  © 2017 NOAA Hurricane Irma gathered steam in the Atlantic before finally making landfall in the Eastern Caribbean early today, threatening thousands of lives and homes, as well as infrastructure, and one of the largest concentrations of sailboats in one of the premier cruising destinations in the world. More »

Crew List Fiesta Tonight

No, that’s not a yacht club. But it is the venue of tonight’s Crew List Party. The Latitude 38 crew is looking forward to seeing you tonight in Sausalito at the Spaulding Marine Center. More »

Adventures in AIS and Other Gizmos

As flocks of cruisers prepare to head south this fall, their nav stations will be packed with more state-of-the-art electronics than ever before. The Wanderer has broken down at length the pros and cons of the various systems available to oceangoing cruisers — deciding what’s best for you and your boat includes factors like cost (duh), installation versus a handheld system, the ability to text or communicate with other cruisers over thousands of miles, and even the ability to get Internet in the middle of the ocean. More »

SPECIAL REPORT: Hurricane Irma

September 5, 2017
As Houston starts to slowly recover from the devastating floods of Hurricane Harvey, the Eastern Caribbean is hunkering down in preparation for Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 storm packing winds up to 185 mph. More »

Women Skippers Regattas

September 1, 2017
During the month of August, we checked in with a couple of women skippers’ regattas that took place on San Francisco Bay. The first was Encinal Yacht Club’s Gracie and George on August 20. According More »

The September Issue Is Here!

The moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived! The September issue of Latitude 38 is hitting the newsstands as we speak. This month, we have features about Tomales Bay cruising, sailor and ocean rower Lia Ditton, the Drake’s Bay Race, the story of the long-lost Phoenix of Hiroshima, the Pacific Puddle Jump recap, Racing Sheet, and much, much more. More »

Holiday Weekend Tip

Oddly, one of the biggest Bay Area headaches is trying to get away for a holiday weekend. But local sailors know that the best vacation is a staycation, which means driving directly to the Bay. More »